Lord Byron
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 January 1788
blue control dark deep earth man marks ocean roll ruin stops sweep ten thee thou thousand
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! / Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; / Man marks the earth with ruin - his control / Stops with the shore.
broke came carol ear light song sweetest
A light broke in upon my brain, - / It was the carol of a bird; / It ceased, and then it came again, / The sweetest song ear ever heard.
earth literature judged
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
venice earth masque
Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.
people ears resources
He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.
light ears oar
On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.
law heaven earth
The law of heaven and earth is life for life.
music men ears
There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.
earthquakes imagination poetry
It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
three earth remnants
Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!
writing ears way
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
heaven merit earth
In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.
inward ears tongue
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
flower heaven earth
But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth; The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth: Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.